Vote in SEA's special election for treasurer! Ballots are dropping today (Friday, November 7) at 9am. It is time to vote Ashley Myers for treasurer! Check your personal email for a message from AAAElections to get voting information.

🗳️ Everyone, turn in your ballots by Tuesday at 8pm. Find the nearest dropbox to you: kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec... Thank you @uaw4121.bsky.social for collaborating with us on the Labor for @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social canvassing event.

🗓️ Mark your calendars! There is a lot happening in November. 🗳️ Sun, Nov. 2, noon-3pm: Canvass for Katie Wilson @ BF Day Playfield 🍎 Sat, Nov 8, 10-11:30pm: Crib to College Coalition Meeting @ Southside Commons 🪧 Sat, Nov. 15, 11am-1pm: Town Hall to Build for a General Strike @ Seattle Labor Temple

We are participating in a solidarity fast for Gaza. We will be sharing thoughts from fasters all week. Join us by signing up to fast or teaching a lesson and sharing student responses with us! #ParentsFast4Gaza #TeachPalestine #SolidarityFastForGaza

Meet us on Sunday, November 2 at noon at BF Day Playfield (4030 Fremont Ave N) to help get out the vote for Katie in the final weekend before election day. 🗳️ Vote Katie Wilson for Seattle Mayor by Tuesday, November 4th at 8pm!

On Saturday, October 18th at Parkrose High School in Portland, five people rotated through tabling for SCORE at the Northwest Teaching for Social Justice Conference. It was wonderful to connect with educators who were interested in establishing their own rank-and-file caucus within their union.

Thank you Young Emerging Labor Leaders (YELL) and @labornotes.bsky.social for hosting such an incredible day of learning and organizing at the Puget Sound Troublemakers School.

Seattle School Board Update! Cops are not coming back to SPS as the school board rejected the amendment to Board Policy No. 4311.

Read the first edition of The Progress Report at bit.ly/Oct25TPR To stay more connected and share what is happening in buildings across Seattle, we're excited to share SCORE's new newsletter The Progress Report! Submit your own story for the next Progress Report at bit.ly/ProgressReportSubmission.

School is underway, and events are happening. Here are some events that are happening in the next couple weeks. We hope to see you at some upcoming events!

Can you spot the Tax the Rich messaging at each of the events?

A recap of the September 17th School Board Meeting. To read the strategic plan, go to bit.ly/SPSstrategicplan2025.

As we head into the second full week of school, there is a lot of opportunities to engage in events that are important for the union, the school district, and state funding for education. Reminder! Sat, Sept. 21 at 10am is the Education Funding Labor Forum at Franklin HS. RSVP: bit.ly/sept20forum.

MLK Labor is proud to co-sponsor an Education Funding Forum on Saturday, Sep. 20, at Franklin High School in Seattle. Educators, labor leaders, families, and lawmakers will come together to discuss how we can win the funding students deserve. RSVP at bit.ly/sept20forum

There is no opting out of learning about LGBQT+ identities and history! seattleschools.org/departments/health-education/lgbtq/sps-for-all #TeachTruth

Welcome to the 2025-26 school year everyone! Here is a calendar of meetings to use and reference as you plan the school year. The first SCORE organizing meeting is this Sunday, September 7 at 10am.

THANK YOU to everyone who came out to celebrate Labor Day in Seattle and send a message to the billionaire class. America belongs to working people. #LaborDay

Thank you to everyone who stopped by the SCORE table today at @mlklabor.bsky.social Labor Day event! We distributed over 400 posters that educators can use for the First Day of School Action.To learn more about the action and print your own posters, visit linktr.ee/SeattleCORE Solidarity forever!

Come find SCORE at MLK Labor’s Labor Day event (Monday, Sept 1, 11am-1pm at Cascade Playground) event to get copies of posters and screen prints for the First Day of School Action. We look forward to seeing you!

On Wednesday, September 3, Seattle educators will welcome students back to school with signs that make it clear that immigrants and ALL students are welcome in our schools. Posters are at linktr.ee/SeattleCORE. @utlanow.bsky.social did this citywide; Seattle can too!

As you enter your worksites and begin having conversations about our collective power, we hope this acronym guide will help in that process. Stay tune for PART II, which has acronyms associated with Seattle Public Schools!

Centering our Points of Unity, over 30 SCORE folks both in-person and online collaborated on goals for the 2025-2026 school year. It was delightful to learn from Arlene Inouye of UTLA and others who shared about how collective power starts with member-to-member organizing.